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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1957.204
People
Paul Cézanne, French (Aix-en-Provence 1839 - 1906 Aix-en-Provence)
Title
View of Mont Sainte Victoire; verso: Study of a Tree
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1885-1887
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297516

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and graphite on cream wove paper; verso: graphite
Dimensions
38.8 × 49.9 cm (15 1/4 × 19 5/8 in.)
framed: 47.6 × 62.9 cm (18 3/4 × 24 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • (not assigned): former mount, hand written, black ink [Seligmann stock catalogue number]: 6462

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Rouland. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris. Vicomte Bernard d’Hendecourt, Paris, sold; [through Sotheby’s, London, May 9, 1929, lot 165]. Paul Rosenberg, Paris and New York. Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA (by 1936-1937), sold; [through Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, November 1937]; to Henry P. McIlhenny, Philadelphia PA (1937-1957), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1957.

Notes:
1. The drawing was listed in the 1936 “Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Handbook” (third edition, p. 160) as being in the Paul J. Sachs collection.
2. The drawing is listed as number 6462 in the Jacques Seligmann & Co. stock catalogue from 1937-1938 (Jacques Seligmann & Co. archives, Archives of American Art online). The entry is crossed out, possibly indicating that the drawing was sold during this time (see note 3).
3. In a night letter dated November 9, 1937 C.M. de Hauke of Jacques Seligmann & Co. notifies Paul J. Sachs that he sold the “Cezanne watercolor” to Henry McIlhenny. This almost certainly refers to the drawing in question, as Sachs expressed interest in selling the work in correspondence with Seligmann & Co. predating this letter (Jacques Seligmann & Co. archives, Archives of American Art online). In addition, in a memo dated July 17, 1988, Agnes Mongan of the Fogg Art Museum recalls that Paul Sachs had been eager to sell the watercolor. She specifies that the offer to McIlhenny was made with the understanding that he would bequeath the work to the Fogg upon his death.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Henry P. McIlhenny
Accession Year
1957
Object Number
1957.204
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cézanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné, website, no. FWN 1168 (recto); https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1261; no. FWN 1161 (verso); https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2609; accessed 2-13-24
  • Lionello Venturi, Cézanne, son art, son oeuvre, P. Rosenberg (Paris, 1936), cat. no. 1561, pl. 395
  • Paul J. Sachs, Modern Prints and Drawings, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (New York, NY, 1954), pl. 190
  • Agnes Mongan, "The Fogg Art Museum's Collection of Drawings", Harvard Library Bulletin, Harvard University (Cambridge, 1958), vol. 3, no. 2, March, pp. 5-9, p. 207
  • The Henry P. McIlhenny Collection: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, exh. cat., California Palace of the Legion of Honor (San Francisco, 1962), no. 3, repr. as plate 3
  • Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of The Phillips Collection, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, 1971), p. 79 cat. 43, repr. p. 78
  • Terence Maloon, ed., Classic Cézanne, exh. cat., Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia, 1998), no. 40; repr. in color
  • Christopher Lloyd, Paul Cézanne: Drawings and Watercolors, J. Paul Getty Museum and Thames & Hudson (Los Angeles, 2015), p. 111; repr. as fig.153 on p.226

Exhibition History

  • First Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 11/01/1929 - 11/30/1929
  • French Drawings and Prints of the Nineteenth Century, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/21/1934 - 04/28/1934
  • Master Drawings, Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Buffalo, 01/01/1935 - 01/31/1935
  • A Thousand Years of Landscape East and West, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 10/24/1945 - 12/09/1945
  • The Henry P. McIlhenny Collection: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 06/15/1962 - 07/31/1962
  • Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of The Phillips Collection, The Phillips Collection, Washington, 02/27/1971 - 03/28/1971
  • French Masterpieces of the 19th century from the Henry P. McIlhenny Collection, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, 05/01/1977 - 09/18/1977
  • French Masterpieces from the Collection of Henry P. McIlhenny, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 05/03/1979 - 06/24/1979
  • Classic Cézanne, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11/28/1998 - 02/28/1999

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